I feel like for now, CodeYear is a bit of a novelty. If they are serious about learning, I highly recomend starting them on a few books: Begin with a solid HT

I feel like for now, CodeYear is a bit of a novelty. If they are serious about learning, I highly recomend starting them on a few books: Begin with a solid HTML + CSS book. If they do well, get them going on Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial (available in several formats) and Chris Pine's "Learn to program" (Beginning programming with Ruby). If rails is too much, I'd go for Eloquent Javascript: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ http://eloquentjavascript.net/